New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-03-20
( DEPRESSED VIEW or TIE ELETATEI

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4 DEPRESSED VIEW or TIE ELETATED.
Tho late accident on one Of the elevated
railroads induces i"1hc London Globe TO
express It's candid opinion Of that sort oil
rapid transit. '"Thc Globe" docs not like
elevated railroads. Far from IT, In fact it
goes to the length Of asserting that " 1t Is lar
better to he asplyxiated in the underground
than to suffer the mutitudnous disadvantages "
Of the road in the air.
Very possibly asphyXa is not so bad-whcn
one gets used to il. The ancient fshwiic who
was upbraidcd for the cruelty with which she
treated cells in that she skinned them alive
replied ooh tic GELS can't possibly mind IT.
Eve been n slinnin' them for wcll-nigh half
ccntury-thcy must have got used to 1t by this
time" All the same the inexperienced Gel
can scarcely find skinning an agreeable cXer-
Csc. and the traveller who is new TO London's
underground railway can be counted upon to
regard aspilyxia as on the whole rather disagree
able than otherwise. II Is amusing-not 10 say
lnstIuctiye-to discover what arc '@thc multi
tudinous disadvantages " Of our elevated rail-
roads as recorded by this intelligent foreigner.
The Globe" informs It's readers that these
aerial roads Of ours are extremely light and
spdcry," that they deprive houses along the
route "to a considerable extent of light and
alr," and that it is always possible for them
ito drop cindcrs upon tho 'Stovc-ppcs OF
mcditativc dudes walking below" Very
likely if these were all the counts in Tho
Globes " Indictment the typical New Yorker
would still feel like eycamng With tic poet
IT'S better 10 endure
The elevated Ills we have,
Than hy 10 asphyxa
That we know not OF.
Rut unfortunately there is another count.
II is "A blistcring not TO say damning. count
Il relates to the dastardy treatment which
innocent metropolitan cows receive at the hands
of ,,e rcm0rScloss elevated. Il" In the upper
part Of the town" (New-York), says "Ihc
Globe" where the road runs on the level, COWS
lave been known 60 stray upon II. Then they
wander down to the spidcry portion Of tho line,
fall between the trcstlcs and afford capital OPP
portunltcs TO the engineer Of collisiyo or we
NAV coin n word tendencies to test the rcla-
tive powers Of resistance Of iron and horn.
Here we have n state of things which no NOM
Ter Of the international Society for the Pre-
ycnton Of Cruelty TO Animals can contcm-
uI,tc without several shuddcrs. What humane
EnClishman after this frank exposure OF the
dcprayity which inhcrcs in the elevated system
would ever dare 10 look COW in the face
again. IL he consented TO take n ride in The
air while lie was doing Ncw-Yonk What
reader Of "Thc Globe now that his favolitc
paper has thus cnl gttcncd him, will not here
after take his daily dose Of underground
asphyAIa with resignation that approaches
delight
If the Ncw-YorIicr continues 10 paironizc
TIE elevated roads, after "1he Globe" has
elevated them for public Indignation rs So
many cold bloodcd cow-killcrs it will he for
a tocrably good reason. II will be because he
realizes in the first place that the COWS in qucs-
ton have been evolved from the mental con-
sciousncss OF the Editor Of "Thc Globe" :;
and because he realizes in tie second place that
the upper part Of uic town where the road
runs on level " exists only in the mc-lrcnzy-
rolling eye of the same editor.